More than this fleeting glimpse I was unable to perceive from where I sat, our rude rampart somewhat obstructing the view, nor did I call the attention of the others to their approach.
Twice I struck savagely at some obstructing figure, and in five strides was at the side of Eloise.
Causing light to disappear means either obstructing the origination of light, or else destroying light that exists.
He took notice of the argument in favor of giving the power over trade to a majority, drawn from the opportunity foreign powers would have of obstructing retaliatory measures if two thirds were made requisite.
It is necessary to prevent a State from obstructingthe general welfare.
While obstructing his pathway down these streams in the way described they were also felling trees into the channels in the rear of his flotilla, and constructing strong earthworks along the banks above him.
So far from obstructing the entrance to the harbor, the sinking of the hulks there had the effect of extensive dredging.
For the possession of its mouth on the one hand, and the control of its upper reaches on the other, meant nothing so long as the Confederates held Vicksburg and Port Hudson, thus obstructing a river whose sole value was as a highway.
They planed and chiselled and sawed together as before, but as they worked each was conscious that a barrier of sudden reserve had sprung up between them, obstructing the perfect confidence that had previously existed.
Perhaps had his mood not been such an abstract one he would have realized that he was directly in the main thoroughfare and obstructing the path between the pantry and the oven.
These morbid encumbrances clog the capillaries, thus obstructing the circulation and interfering with or preventing the normal activity of the organs of elimination, especially the skin.
His fellow workers or his friends must come to his aid and remove the obstructing masses until he can assist them and free himself.
Would it not expedite matters if you restricted yourself to categorical statements of fact unencumbered with obstructingaccumulations of metaphor and allegory?
In town houses especially all outward show of richness should be avoided; the use of elaborate lace-figured curtains, besides obstructing the view, seems an attempt to protrude the luxury of the interior upon the street.
This plan of obstructing it occupied thirty-nine sittings, so that it did not reach the House of Lords until the twenty-second of September.
Well, Duke, I am perhaps a little hasty; but I do not understand obstructing warfare.
Think for a moment of the madness of obstructing this interchange of elements which is perpetually going on and on which life depends!
Two large polypi, and many smaller ones, appear growing from the mucous membrane of the prostatic urethra and vesical orifice, and obstructing these parts.
A globular excrescence, a, appears blocking up the vesical orifice, and giving to this the appearance of a crescentic slit, corresponding to the shape of the obstructing body.
Behind the obstructing body the canal has become dilated, and, in front of it, contracted.
Although Ishi took me on many deer hunts and we had several shots at deer, owing to the distance or the fall of the ground or obstructing trees, we registered nothing better than encouraging misses.
My quarry fell against anobstructing log and died.
A shot in either the chest or abdominal cavity of a deer is invariably fatal in a few minutes; while a rabbit may carry an arrow off until the obstructing undergrowth checks his flight.
Hence the motive for obstructing the passage of a foreign expedition between Burma and China was as strong on the Burmese as on the Chinese side.
They had stirred up the Tibetans to the point of obstructing the Macaulay mission, but seemed really to lose control of the force after it had been set in motion.
The influence of defects of intelligence in obstructing all the elements of good government requires no illustration.
Many lives have been saved by the bronchoscopic removal of membrane obstructing the trachea or bronchi.
If the proximal edge of the drainage outlet is too near the distal end of the endoscopic tube, the mucosa will be drawn into the outlet, not only obstructing it, but, most important, traumatizing the mucosa.
If the child is but slightly dyspneic, the obstructing part of the growth is first removed without anesthesia, general or local; the remaining fungations are extirpated subsequently at a number of brief seances.
The women with practically a deserted street were arrested and served jail terms for "obstructing traffic.
They were promptly arrested for "obstructing the traffic.
It sentenced the leader, Alice Paul, to the absurd and desperate sentence of seven months in the Washington jail for "obstructing traffic.
The crowd was clearly obstructing the traffic, but no attempt was made to move them back or to protect the women, some of whom were attacked by sailors on their own doorsteps.
Even when you go through the farce of a police court trial the charge is "obstructing traffic"; which shows conclusively that you are not willing to go into court on the real issue.
Judge Mullowny addressed the prisoners with many high-sounding words about the seriousness of obstructing the traffic in the national capital, and inadvertently slipped into a discourse on Russia, and the dangers of revolution.
A curious crowd, as large as had collected on those days when the police arrested women for "obstructing traffic," stood watching the lone picket.
Now with a vast impulse, like a torrent swelled with rain, he is borne along, and bears down the obstructing forests with his breast.
He cannot put his pig-pen, wagons, cart, wood or other things there, if the highway surveyor orders them away as obstructing public travel.
What if these horrible jagged masses should fall on or in front of me, obstructing my path!
Various penalties are mentioned in different sections of the Public Health Act for the offence of obstructing officers, &c.
For obstructing a justice's order with regard to the burial of a person who has died from an infectious disease, &c.
These last armed with sword and pistol for protection against robbers, but also, pioneer fashion, carrying spade and axe to fill up ruts, patch broken bridges, and cut down obstructing trees.
For, soon as receiving news of the re-capture of Monmouth, instinctively apprehending danger to the dear ones so unwisely left alone, he had hurriedly started homeward; to be delayed by the obstructing flood.
